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Dave Brownell fonds

  • CA UMASC Mss Sc 87 (A.92-63)
  • Fonds
  • ca. 1973

The fonds consists of a collection of poetry entitled "Warrior of the Rainbow."

Brownell, David

George McLeod Brownell fonds

  • CA UMASC Mss Sc 23, Tc 3 (A.78-29, A.96-52)
  • Fonds
  • 1927-1974

The fonds consists mainly of his geological papers. Included are some biographical materials on Brownell and a biographical note on J.S. Delury. TC 3 consists of an oral history recording of Dr. Brownell conducted by Richard Bennett on October 11, 1978.

Brownell, G. M. (George McLeod)

Burrows Community Hall fonds

  • CA UMASC Mss Sc 151 (A.96-37)
  • Fonds
  • 1961-1976

The fonds consists of a cash-book of the Burrows Community Hall for the period 1961 to 1975, and a minute book for the period 1961 to 1976.

Burrows Community Hall

Business and Professional Women's Club of Winnipeg fonds

  • CA UMASC Tc 79 (A.91-24)
  • Fonds
  • 1990-1991

The fonds consists of ten audio cassette tapes created by the Business and Professional Women's Club of Winnipeg Oral History project 1990. Each tape contains oral interviews with club members and details their reasons for involvement in the club. Interviewees were all long-standing members of the club and included: Winona Hockley, a retired schoolteacher; Olive Flett, also a schoolteacher; Jenny Kirkness, a Winnipeg accountant and former president of the BPWCW; Jean Miller, a librarian; Ida Fenwick, an accountant and holder of several positions in the club's executive including honourary president; Frances Lovat, a secretary and former member of the club's executive; Mabel E. Kent, a stenographer and former secretary of the club; Jessie Buckingham, a schoolteacher; Irene Grant, the first married female schoolteacher in Manitoba; Marguerite Hargrave, a court reporter and member of several BPWCW committees; Lily Hobbs, a secretary for the federal Department of Agriculture; and Beatrice Deeks, who worked for the federal government's unemployment office and a former second vice-president of the club. Interviews were conducted by Kimberly Kappel, Deanna Mallen, and Carole Vann. The fonds also consists of printed summaries of the interviews, which are arranged chronologically.

Business and Professional Women's Club of Winnipeg

W. Royce Butler fonds

  • CA UMASC Mss Sc 26, Mss Sc 65 (A.78-42, A.80-20)
  • Fonds
  • 1978

MSS SC 26 contains a copy of Professor Butler's lecture "The Form of the Book and the Shape of the Mind", delivered in 1978 at the Winnipeg Centennial Library as part of the Manitoba Library Event, a press release and a calendar of events for Manitoba Library Event and Children's Book Festival in November 1978. MSS SC 65 consists of a photocopy of Loys Le Roy's pamphlet, "De la Vicissitude des Choses," and a bibliographic history of the first edition prepared by Butler.

Butler, Royce

Winnipeg Tribune fonds

  • CA UMASC Mss 24, Pc 18 (A.81-12, A.81-23, A.81-40, A.84-49, A.85-06, A.85-07, A.91-33, A.95-20, A.01-47)
  • Fonds
  • ? - 1980

The fonds contains the Tribune research collection (or `morgue' files) as created by the newspaper's staff consisting of personality files and subject folders of clippings from the 1930's to 1980. Many of the subject files have been microfilmed by the Archives for preservation purposes. The microfilm collection totals 167 reels. There are approximately 2,500,000 clippings (a few of the clippings may be from other newspapers such as the Free Press), divided over some 11,000 different subject categories and 60,000 personality folders. Together they provide ready-made collections of people and events in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, and abroad. The collection is also well documented pictorially with over 500,000 photographs and negatives. A typewritten alphabetical index to the Tribune fonds is available.

Winnipeg Tribune

Arthur A. Stoughton fonds

  • CA UMASC MSS SC 16
  • Fonds
  • 1930 - 1961

The fonds consists of letters from Arthur Stoughton and his wife, Florence Elise Stoughton, to Dr. Elinor F.E. (Frances Elizabeth) Black. The letters pertain to everyday occurrences as well as significant events, such as Black's travels, the births and deaths of friends, and, in particular, Arthur Stoughton's death. Elinor Black's unpublished memoir, The professor and his wife: (The Stoughton Story: a memoir) is also included.

Stoughton, Arthur

Henry Clark Grant fonds

  • CA UMASC Mss Sc 38 (A.79-20)
  • Fonds
  • 1924-1925

The fonds consists of an unpublished report written by Grant and funded by the Hudson's Bay Research Fellowship 1922-1923. The report provides details on research into the production costs, management, and business organization of fifteen mixed and fifteen dairy farms in Manitoba. The report includes an autographed typescript letter from Premier John Bracken, Winnipeg, dated May 11, 1925.

Henry Clark Grant

MacDonald Family fonds

  • CA UMASC Mss Sc 129 (A.96-20)
  • Fonds
  • 1912-1988

The fonds consists of grain permit books, income tax returns and farm account books belonging to Robert J. MacDonald and income tax returns, bank books, notebooks, diaries and receipts belonging to John D. MacDonald. Also included in the fonds is a copy of the MacDonald family history.

MacDonald Family

J.W.G. MacEwan fonds

  • CA UMASC Mss 8
  • Fonds
  • 1930-1950

The fonds consists of a manuscript titled "The Breeds of Farm Live Stock in Canada" written by J.W.G. MacEwan.

MacEwan, J.W.G.

Fonds Famille Hamilton

  • CA UMASC Mss 14, Pc 12, Tc 70
  • Fonds
  • 1919-1986

Portée et contenu : Le fonds se rapporte principalement aux recherches du Docteur T.G. et Lillian Hamilton sur les phénomènes paranormaux à partir de 1918 jusqu’en 1945. Les sujets traités dans les documents incluent les coups frappés, la clairvoyance, les états de transe et les graphiques de transe, la télékinèse, les moulages de paraffine, les tintements de cloches, les transcriptions et visions, ainsi que les téléplasmes. Les documents sont dans les divers formats suivants : albums, registres des présences aux séances, affidavits, écriture automatique, correspondance, discours et conférences, coupures de presse, articles de périodiques, livres, photographies, plaques (sur verre) négatives et positives, images, diapositives, enregistrements, manuscrits, et matériaux publicitaires sur les publications majeures. Toutes les images positives prises des épreuves négatives ont été conservées avec les documents écrits des expériences qu’elles illustrent. Presque toutes les plaques en verre négatives ont été photographiées pour fin archivistique et la collection d’images noires et blanches glacées est aussi disponible. Une bibliothèque de livres et de périodiques dans le domaine qui accompagnait la collection a été cataloguée à part et est disponible.

Famille Hamilton

Alice Cameron Brown fonds

  • CA UMASC Mss 105, Pc 105 (A.93-29, A.93-30, A.93-32, A.93-40, A.93-42, A.93-53, A.93-83, A.94-19, A.94-31, A.01-57)
  • Fonds
  • 1919-2000

The fonds consists of journals, correspondence, original manuscripts, published works, poetry, plays, short stories, novels, memoirs, certificates, newspaper clippings, personal documents, and photographs.

Brown, Alice Cameron

Community Players of Winnipeg fonds

  • CA UMASC Mss Sc 9
  • Fonds
  • 1921-1937

The fonds consists of programmes from 1923-1930, newspaper clippings, Treasurer's Reports of the 1927 and 1928 season, The Bill from 1928 to 1937, Little Theatre Gossip, correspondence, and typescripts of speeches and historical summaries.

Community Players of Winnipeg

Allan Eastman fonds

  • CA UMASC Mss 234, Pc 204, Tc 117, El 6, Mc 15 (A.05-96)
  • Fonds
  • 1975-2004

The fonds is separated into eleven series. They include biographical material, feature films, mini-series, television shows, scripts & screenplays, background/research material, conventions, photograph collection (PC 204), audio recordings (TC 117), electronic records (EL 6), and ephemera. The photograph collection includes 853 photographs, 25 negatives, 16 slides, 445 sketches, 25 large sketches, and 17 posters (desginated as MC 15). The fonds also includes 293 VHS videocassettes, 163 U-matic videocassettes, 19 DVDs and 1 laser-disc. Audio recordings include 2 CDs and electronic records include 2 floppy discs and 1 CD-rom.

Eastman, Allan

Charles William Gordon fonds

  • CA UMASC Mss 56, Pc 76 (A.84-42, A.85-15, A.87-06, A.87-58, A.90-54, A.93-16, A.97-48, A.98-72)
  • Fonds
  • 1883-1937, 1948, 1982

The fonds contains all of Charles Gordon's known literary manuscripts, his ministry records, his papers, writings and maps as a chaplain in the Canadian army in World War I, his papers as a labour negotiator in many Winnipeg labour disputes before and after the war, and various personal papers including those as Moderator of the Presbyterian Church. His literary papers consist of original manuscripts, publishers' correspondence, and abundant fan mail. The photographs are mainly of Gordon, the family cottage at Lake of the Woods, and some pictures of his ministry.

Connor, Ralph

E. Cora Hind fonds

  • CA UMASC Mss Sc 7 (A.78-06)
  • Fonds
  • 1922-1941

The fonds contains correspondence, largely letters of congratulations on her 1935 honourary doctorate, a diary of her 1928 European tour, lectures, her Winnipeg Free Press columns dating from 1935 to 1942, and news clippings about her career.

Hind, E. Cora (Ella Cora)

Jellis Family fonds

  • CA UMASC A.97-14
  • Fonds
  • 1866-1995

The fonds consists of farm records, legal documents, geneaological information, diaries, photographs, and memorabilia pertaining to the Jellis family farm. The material contains a variety of land deeds and titles, oil leases and indentures, grain Permit Books, bills and receipts for farm equipment, and diary entries relating to the Jellis's agricultural operation which complements the repository's other holdings and will interest anyone involved in agricultural research, particularly in Southwest Manitoba. Six letters between an American and Canadian Jellis cousin during World War I are of particular interest.

Jellis Family

Ed Kleiman fonds

  • CA UMASC Mss 170 (A.01-15)
  • Fonds
  • 1957-1998

The fonds consists of personal correspondence, including letters from friends Adele Wiseman, James Reaney, and Fredelle Maynard. Also included in the fonds are various drafts of Kleiman's manuscripts and articles and his teaching notes accrued over his thirty-seven year career.

Kleiman, Ed

Marion Jean Lewis fonds

  • CA UMASC Mss 161, Pc 167, Tc 106 (A.02-63)
  • Fonds
  • 1944-1996

The fonds consists of seven series. The first series, personal, consists of Marion Lewis' curriculum vitae. The second series, correspondence, is divided into 4 sub-series. The first sub-series is comprised of various professional and work-related correspondence, both incoming and outgoing, created during the years 1944 through 1996. The correspondence in this series revolves mainly around blood grouping work. The next 3 sub-series revolve around correspondence generated due to an international group Lewis was a part of for many years, the International Society of Blood Transfusion (ISBT). The third series is comprised of records generated by Dr. Bruce Chown. It is divided into two sub-series, the first being chronologically organized correspondence, and the second being research notes. Much of this series is restricted. The fourth series is comprised of reprints of over 140 published articles authored or coauthored by Lewis. The fifth series consists of unpublished articles and lectures given by Lewis throughout her career. The sixth series consists of research done by Lewis when she worked with Dr. Chown. The series is made up of three sub-series. The first contains research done on the blood groups of Hutterites and includes blood group genealogies. The second contains research on Aboriginal and Inuit blood types and contains blood group genealogies, field notes and lists of individuals. The third sub-series consists of miscellaneous research. This series is restricted.

The seventh series is PC 167. It consists of 156 photographs, 468 slides, including 30 glass lantern slides, and a reel-to-reel audio tape. Two of the photos are of Marion Lewis. The rest are photos of individuals whose blood was tested by Lewis and Chown in the 1950s and 1960s. Dr. Chown took most of the slides during a research trip to Alaska in 1960. The majority of them are of Alaskan wildflowers. Lewis used the other slides during her lectures and presentations. Dr. Chown used the lantern slides for research purposes in the 1950s and the reel-to-reel tape was used by Lewis to demonstrate laboratory methods. Some of the photographs are restricted. The eighth series is TC 106. It consists of two mini audiocassettes of a speech given by Lewis.

Lewis, Marion Jean

Jennie Maude Little fonds

  • CA UMASC Mss Sc 125 (A.96-87, A.98-17)
  • Fonds
  • 1927-1949

The fonds consists of a copy of the family tree, a brief history of Jennie Maude Little's life, and diaries detailing aspects of life on the family farm.

Little, Jennie Maude

Florence Randal Livesay fonds

  • CA UMASC Mss Sc 29 (A.78-50, A.08-161)
  • Fonds
  • ca. 1923-1943

The 1978 accession consists of a letter from Florence Randal Livesay to Elizabeth Anderson Varley, dated December 28, 1943 at Clarkson, Ontario. The letter mentions both J.F.B. Livesay and Dorothy Livesay. The 2008 accession contains a scrapbook containing clippings of Florence Randal Livesay's published poetry and reviews.

Livesay, Florence Randal

Jack Ludwig fonds

  • CA UMASC Mss Sc 101 (A.00-53)
  • Fonds
  • 1944, 1975

The fonds consists of newspaper clippings, photocopies of correspondence from Jack Ludwig and Bert Hamilton, and a copy of University of Manitoba Board Minutes. These records pertain to an anti-war article written by Jack Ludwig for The Manitoban during the Second World War.

Ludwig, Jack

Machray Defalcation Scandal Collection

  • CA UMASC Mss Sc 162
  • Collection
  • 1932-1933

The fonds consists of two scrapbooks detailing University of Manitoba Bursar John A. Machray's embezzlement of $900,000 of the University's endowment fund. Each scrapbook contains articles about the scandal from the Winnipeg Tribune and the Manitoba Free Press.

Machray, John A.

Pierre Magne Collection (Beaconsfield Homesteads)

  • CA UMASC Mss Sc 126 (A.96-27)
  • Collection
  • 1925-[ca.1972]

The collection consists of copies of letters to the Postmaster in Beaconsfield, Manitoba from John Boulton, dated January 20, 1925, to Jean Magne in Beaconsfield from John Boulton dated February 15, 1925, and to Paul Magne from John Boulton dated April 5, 1925. The letters discuss homesteading and homesteaders in Beaconsfield, Manitoba during the late nineteenth-century. A photocopy of a list of Beaconsfield postmasters is included. Also included in the collection is a photocopy of an autobiography by A. F. Willis (nee Boulton), the wife of John L. Willis, entitled The Days of My Pilgrimage [1972?].

Magne, Pierre

Henry Makow fonds

  • CA UMASC Mss Sc 45 (A.80-05)
  • Fonds
  • [ca.1970]

The fonds consists of a photocopy of a typescript (13 leaves) entitled "Profiles in Canadian Literature: Frederick Philip Grove," written by Henry Makow. The fonds also contains an edited collection of Frederick Philip Grove's letters with commentary by H. Makow entitled "Letters from Eden: Grove's Creative Rebirth."

Makow, Henry

Jayesh Maniar fonds

  • CA UMASC Pc 174 (A.05-08)
  • Fonds
  • 1948-[ca.1960]

The fonds consists of six films. The first film, labeled "Jack Frost", shows the Santa Claus Parade in what is believed to be Toronto during the 1950s (6:15). The second film depicts the Santa Claus Parade in Winnipeg in 1948 (5:45). The third film is of a young Indian girl performing a traditional dance routine during the 1960s (4:45). The fourth film shows a veterans parade in Winnipeg during the 1960s and the laying of wreaths (2:45). The fifth and sixth films are commercially produced films featuring clips of silent movie stars Harold Lloyd, "Fatty" Arbuckle and Charlie Chaplin (7:00), as well as musical performances by the Eton Boys titled "I Want a Girl," "Bicycle Built for Two," and "My Gal Sal" (7:50).

Maniar, Jayesh

Manitoba Dairy & Poultry Co-operative Ltd. fonds

  • CA UMASC Mss Sc 140 (A.94-38)
  • Fonds
  • 1954

The fonds consists of a laminated certificate identifying James E. McComb of Shoal Lake, Manitoba, as the owner of two one-dollar shares of Manitoba Dairy & Poultry Co-operative Ltd.

Manitoba Dairy & Poultry Co-operative Ltd.

Manitoba Federation of Agriculture, Arborg Chapter, Women's Section fonds

  • CA UMASC Mss Sc 168 (A.97-16)
  • Fonds
  • 1932-1953

The fonds consists of two folders. Folder 1 contains four minute books for the Manitoba Federation of Agriculture, Arborg Chapter, Women's Section. The first minute book, beginning in 1932, details the activities of the United Farmer's Women of Manitoba of Arborg throughout the 1930s until their name change to the MFA. The second minute book chronicles the group's activities between 1940 and 1947. The third minute book is dated 1947-1950. The final book is dated 1953-1957. Topics covered in the minute books include the group's involvement in the community and various fundraising activities. The second folder contains assorted documents relating to the MFA Women's Section, Arborg Chapter. The folder includes assorted correspondence, newspaper clippings, certificates, and programmes.

Manitoba Federation of Agriculture, Arborg Chapter, Women's Section

Manitoba Free Press fonds

  • CA UMASC Mss Sc 52, Mss Sc 53, Mss Sc 79, Mss Sc 80
  • Fonds
  • 1900-1916

The fonds consists of six files. The first file, formerly classified as MSS SC 52, consists of a variety of historical writings about Manitoba, as well as correspondence between Brandon Sun editor, C.W. Litchfield, and Winnipeg reporter, J. Fahey. The three files comprising MSS SC 53 contain papers and correspondence primarily pertaining to Manitoba politics and government during the first decade of the 20th century. Also included is a memorial from the legislature of the Province of Manitoba respecting the extension of the boundaries of the province. The fifth file, formerly classified as MSS SC 79, consists of correspondence between James P. MacDonald, MacDonald's lawyer Alex Arthur, Winnipeg grain merchant George Leary, Manitoba Premier, R.P. Roblin, and former Premier Thomas Greenway concerning the construction of a railroad between Northeastern Minnesota and Winnipeg. This series also includes a contract between J.P. MacDonald and George Leary, plus Manitoba Free Press clippings on the railroad. The last file, MSS SC 80, consists of records pertaining to a libel case against Manitoba Free Press editor, John W. Dafoe, concerning the Free Press's reporting of illegal payment of funds during the Boyne Marsh Drainage of September 1900.

Manitoba Free Press

Sarah Klassen fonds

  • CA UMASC Mss 369, Pc 322, Tc 165 (A.12-78)
  • Fonds
  • 1958-2012

This fonds consists of drafts of and correspondence relating to Sarah Klassen's poetry, short stories, and literary reviews, including material written as a student. Tearsheets of her published work are included. Additionally, copies of Sophia magazine, of which Klassen was editor from 1992-1995, are included in this fonds, as are copies of other periodicals and newsletters for which she wrote. Material relating to two musical works based on Klassen's poetry is included in the collection.

Klassen, Sarah

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